Unexpectedly, Li Xin did not hold back at all, but said: "After the adults have indeed delayed in Zhenwei for too long, and if they don't go to the Dusi Mansion to report, I'm afraid it can't be justified, and Li Xin is not good to stay here, but this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has to eat anything, and can't be as anxious as those merchants!" ”

Zeng dared to be stomped by Li Xin's angry thoughts, stretched out his trembling right hand, pointed at Li Xinyi and said three good words in a row, and said hatefully:

"You want the official to leave immediately, but the official will not leave!"

After that, Zeng dared to snort heavily and left the Weisi Yamen.

The snow outside is getting heavier and heavier, and the night is gradually turning dark, this is the first New Year pass that Li Xin has passed since he came to the Ming Dynasty, but at this moment, neither the Weisi Yamen nor the city has the slightest taste of joy in the Chinese New Year's Eve. The clerks and miscellaneous servants all went home happily, and the yamen was deserted and scary, only the occasional sound of firecrackers in the distance reminded Li Xin that the New Year was over.

Early the next morning, Li Xin ushered in the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and he was not idle on the first day of the first month, and found his own soldiers to post the notice written overnight in the city. At the same time, he also ordered special personnel to distribute it to all 1,000 households and 100 households.

It is only said that in the acropolis of this town, as soon as the gong sounded, the yamen immediately attracted the lively military households, and the black and white bulletin attracted everyone's attention. People are speculating about what new moves the chief soldier has.

The military households were basically illiterate, and the notices posted in the acropolis were usually read by someone. Before this, I privately speculated, could it be related to the mountain of materials in the city? Or does the general soldier want to distribute some to the big guys, so that everyone can have a good New Year? This is not an unfounded speculation, the news of the collapse of the negotiation between the merchants who came to ask for the goods last night and the general soldier has long been spread, and the big guys are very excited, since these goods have been saved, everyone has no merit and hard work, and it is not an exaggeration to share some of them.

However, after the soap subordinate read the contents of the proclamation, the military households could not help but be faintly disappointed, and at the same time with a hint of excitement, because the proclamation had nothing to do with the distribution of goods at all. To be precise, this is a notice of recruiting soldiers from the General Military Office, and military households, especially adult men, have always had a trace of resistance to the imperial court's recruitment, so when they heard that it was a recruitment notice, many ** disappointed.

But the next clause has made many people's hearts flutter again. By the time the military households reacted, Na Soap Li had already finished reading the notice, packed up his things, and prepared to go home to accompany his mother-in-law and children.

"Hey, read it again, we didn't hear it clearly."

"Yes, especially that one by one, what has been said, read it again!"

The soap had no choice but to slow down his speech and read the conditions for recruiting again, and the soldiers suddenly became excited. I have never seen such a lucrative recruitment clause, and those who pass the test will be paid ten taels of silver per year per person. And that's not all, as long as those who are qualified, as long as they are recruited, their military households can be exempted from taxes and conscription, and there are also supplementary benefits and benefits, waiting for further announcements.

As for the supplementary clauses, ignore them for now, just these two articles will cause people to drool.

Although the military households are stationed in the border towns on behalf of the imperial court, they still need to pay all kinds of taxes and fees, and the conscription that should be served is also indispensable, and the family has no surplus food or surplus wealth for a year. However, if you really follow what is said in this recruitment clause, when you become a recruit of the general military government, you can not only get ten taels of cash every year for military salary, but even that kind of taxes and fees will be exempted, which will invisibly save another amount of expenses, which is equal to what you earn, and in addition, you will be exempted from all kinds of conscription, which will not only relieve your own conscripted labor, but also be a symbol of status promotion.

This kind of thing, which has both inside and face, anyone who sees it will be greedy. On that day, hundreds of military households in the Acropolis gathered at the gate of the Weisi Yamen, shouting that they hoped to become recruits for the General Military Palace.

After Zeng dared to learn the news, he thought that his own coercion stimulated Li Xin, but when he dared to change the system of the imperial court without authorization, he was very dissatisfied in his heart, but under the lesson of countless hard encounters and countless losses in the past, he chose to remain silent and then act at the opportunity, neither agreeing nor opposing, just watching coldly to see what moth he could toss.

Only one day later, the news was received from all the surrounding households, and the military households came to the Acropolis to see if the news of recruiting soldiers was true or false. After receiving an affirmative answer, they gathered in the city as they had done and asked to join the recruitment of the General Military Palace.

This effect seems to have been expected by Li Xin for a long time, and soon he issued a second notice, this time it was the specific requirements of the recruited soldiers, and the requirements shown were actually very simple, only two points. The first is that applicants must be at least 16 years old and must not be over 30 years old. The second article is rather strange, and the content is that all applicants must be interviewed by the chief soldier in person, and only those who pass the test have the opportunity to become a reserve soldier in the recruitment of the general military office.

The first of these two requirements alone made several families happy and some worried. In the military households, there are not a few men over 30 years old and under 60 years old, but the age bar set by the chief soldier is too harsh, and I am afraid that the entire town guard will not meet the above requirements of more than 1,000 people.

Disappointment is disappointment, the living can't be suffocated by urine, not everyone follows the rules, the household registration policy has been burned in the war, and it's not a big deal to impersonate your age. The preliminary selection process was officially launched at noon on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

The person in charge of the initial selection was Qian Tai, the governor of the Weisi Yamen, who finally made a successful comeback after being snubbed by Li Xin for a while. In these days, he has been ashamed of his behavior of switching to the court and daring to secretly communicate with him, although the ostensible purpose is for official business, but this is tantamount to a disguised betrayal in the Ming officialdom of the extremely affectionate scene. He never expected that Li Xin would not only use him once, but also reuse him, regardless of his previous suspicions. How can this make Qian Tai feel ungrateful in his heart? It's to work harder and more seriously than ever before.

The first problem soon came, Qian Tai found a large number of military households lying about their age while registering according to their age, and it was difficult to identify the similar ones, but the white-headed old man was also caught in the registration team, and when he said that he was thirty years old, he couldn't cry or laugh.

In this way, the total number of registrations on the first day exceeded 800, and until the fifth day of the first lunar month, the total number of registrations before and after the town guards exceeded 2,000, which greatly exceeded the normal proportion of Qian Tai's knowledge of the population and age of the town guards. He felt that this matter was going to be messed up, and he wanted to find someone to come up with an idea, but no one could help him. If it is left in the past, this is not a problem at all, there is a household registration policy, and the date of birth of all military households is clearly written.

By the sixth day of the first lunar month, the number had reached nearly 3,000 people, and the general soldier did not stipulate the upper limit when he first explained the task, but according to Qian Tai's judgment, it would not be difficult to exceed 5,000 if it continued to develop on this scale. However, the initial selection deadline for recruitment is the eighth day of the first lunar month, which means that there are still two days left.

In the last two days, Qian Tai unexpectedly found that even Gaoshan, Yang, and the two guards had military households coming to apply for recruitment, because Li Xin was the chief soldier of the three guards, so the scope of the bulletin was naturally not only the town guard, but also the other two guards who were not in his actual control, but he didn't expect that there were really people coming, and there were a lot of them. In the end, the total number of people who were put into the book far exceeded the expected 5,000.

When Qian Tai reported the final statistical results to Li Xin with trepidation, he actually got a compliment, which made him feel that he couldn't figure out his head, and at the same time he was ashamed of his points. In the end, Qian Tai couldn't help but express his worries, there were not a few military households who pretended to be age, and probably less than 12 out of 12 of them really met the requirements. Who knew that Li Xin waved his hand indifferently.

"Governor Qian doesn't have to worry, the rules are dead, but people are alive, since the people have such a positive desire to join the army, we can't refuse, hurt them, don't you say?"

Qian Taixin said, where is this active joining the army, it is clear that they are all coming for that generous treatment. To put it mildly, what these military households are asking for is not right, how can the chief soldier lure them for a long time? Qian Tai's mentality has changed a lot in the past few days, and when Li Xin first came to Zhenwei, he had a trace of ambition to go further. And there is also the guarantee of the big people in the capital office, so he has a very serious selfishness when dealing with Li Xin. It wasn't until he secretly cooperated with Zeng Dare and was defeated by Yan Zhan that he broke off the idea of further non-separation. There is no size work, and I want to go further, isn't that a fool's dream?

As a result, Qian Tai also lost confidence in the assurances of the big men of the capital, and perhaps they had already given up on themselves. In fact, he has never figured out what kind of benefit he has for the big man to curb Gu Tong, no matter how he looks at it, it is something that is out of touch. These questions, along with those non-trivial thoughts, were buried deep in his heart.

When Chan Tai abandoned the idea of non-division and began to do some concrete work in a down-to-earth manner, his strengths became prominent. Selecting recruits is not an easy task. He was able to sort out these tasks in an orderly manner, which shows that he put his heart into it.

The size of these thousands of people is too large, and it is also a problem in terms of time to gather together, not to mention that there is not such a large colonel field. In the end, it was decided that according to the order of registration, 500 people would be selected each time and interviewed in batches. By now, it was no longer realistic for Li Xin to ask questions one by one, so he decided to interview in groups of ten people.

But the results of the interview on the first day made Qian Tai dumbfounded, and the number of qualified people after Li Xin's interview was less than ten.